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Issue: Vol. 2426 No. 1: 14 Apr. 2010
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2010-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2426.1.4
Page range: 61–64
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

Bioacoustic data of the recently described Boophis calcaratus (Anura: Mantellidae: Boophinae), a cryptic treefrog from Eastern Madagascar

Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Sezione di Zoologia, Via G. Giolitti, 36, I-10123, Torino, Italy
Amphibia Anura Mantellidae Boophinae

Abstract

The recent systematic classification of Malagasy amphibians by Glaw & Vences (2006) proposed a new monophyletic Boophis subgenus (Sahona), that includes the species formerly ascribed to the B. tephraeomystax group. This subgenus contains ten described species (Vallan et al. 2009), which show a rather cryptic colouration, sometimes reminding tree corks and lichens, as it is the case of B. lichenoides, B. guibei, and possibly also in B. xerophilus (Andreone 2002; Glaw & Vences 2007).

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